The former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II has warned that the multi-faith multiculturalism of King Charles III threatens to destroy his own home and end the British monarchy.
“I think if this slow movement towards multiculturalism and multi-faith continues, we will lose the monarchy, because in the end I don’t think it will be true to itself,” said Gavin Ashenden, who served as chaplain of the Queen. From 2008 to 2017, he told UK outlet GB News on Sunday.
Ashenden made his comments in response to the king’s first royal christmas message From his accession to the throne to the death of his mother in September.
“The problem is, it’s kind of like watching a beautiful ship slowly sink with its hull below the waterline, and at some point what you want to do is stop it from sinking. and make sure it floats,” Ashenden said. And I don’t think the monarchy can float if it becomes a multicultural, multi-faith monarchy.
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Acknowledging King Charles III did “exceptionally well” with his first Christmas speech, Ashenden said British subjects nevertheless witnessed “a very slow and gradual change from a Christian monarchy to a multi-denominational monarchy”.
‘The problem is that you are either a defender of the faith or you are not’, referring to the oath the British monarch is willing to uphold the protestant religion.
The British monarch, among other functions, serves as Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
“There are so many things about Christianity that are directly responsible for how we live in our culture,” said Ashenden, who went on to warn that Christians in the UK are increasingly marginalized.
If King Charles III refuses to uphold his nation’s historic faith, Ashenden predicted in his article that he will have “sown the seeds for the destruction of the House of Windsor.”
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Ashenden, who resign as chaplain in 2017 after condemning Quran recitations during an Epiphany service at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow, noted how Christianity is increasingly being pushed out of the public square due to its exclusive claims amid of a “serious competition for power”.
“So the problem we have right now is that Christianity is under attack,” Ashenden said. “Now the question is, what does a Christian king do about it? Does a Christian king save Christianity? Did he become the defender of the faith, which is really his title? Or, like Charles the did with a sleight of hand, say, ‘No, I’m…an advocate of all faiths, which means I don’t have defend christianity.'”
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“If you don’t stand up for Christianity today, we will lose it from this country,” Ashenden added, noting the recent case of a Christian woman who was recently arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham.
“The problem we face is a serious conflict of values, and there can be no solution by simply saying, ‘Do you know what? All values are the same, let’s pretend it’s okay,'” he said. the former chaplain. said. “I don’t think Nice will be enough.”
King Charles III
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Ashenden, who eventually left the Church of England and became a Roman Catholic, also wrote an op-ed in the catholic herald warning that Christianity in the UK is “reeling under the relentless daily assault from increasingly hostile secularism”.
If King Charles III refuses to uphold his nation’s historic faith, Ashenden predicted in his article that he will have “sown the seeds for the destruction of the House of Windsor”.
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